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of detached species as appeared during the year in which the Monograph should be 

 published. — Henry Doubleday ; Epping, April 10, 1863. 



[I beg this subject may now be dropped : it is evident that my friend Mr. Double- 

 day has never had any selfish feeling with regard to Entomology, but has always 

 done everything in his power to assist his fellow-labourers in the science. It may be 

 thought by most of ray readers that there was no necessity for even this reply on his 

 part ; but to me it seems that a feeling of courtesy to Mr. Greene demands the ex- 

 planation Mr. Doubleday has now given. I may add that I entirely and heartily 

 concur in the spirit of the passages Mr. Doubleday has cited from Major Parry and 

 Professor Westwood, and I should decline to enter into the question whether the 

 description of M. Guenee or Mr. Gregson were the first printed. Mr. Gregson will, 

 I trust, kindly accept these lines as an intimation that I respectfully decline his rather 

 voluminous paper on the same subject. — Edward Newman.'] 



Remarks on a few Rare British Species of Lepidoptera. 

 By Mr. Thomas Huckett.* 



Having for a short time in ray possession continental specimens 

 of some of our rarer British species of Lepidoptera I have taken the 

 liberty of bringing them for exhibition, thinking that some of the 

 members would feel interested in seeing a few of those species of which 

 they may have heard, but have seen, perhaps, very little. 



The species I exhibit are Pieris Daplidice, Argynnis Dia, Vanessa 

 Antiopa, Lycaena Bcetica, Polyommatus Hippothoe, P. Chryseis, P« 

 Virgaurese, Sphinx Pinastri, Deilephila Euphorbia?, Chcerocampa 

 Nerii and Deiopeia pulchella. On some of these I have made a few 

 remarks, which, with your permission, I will read. 



Pieris Daplidice. Of this insect specimens have occurred in various 

 parts of the country, according to the various notices of capture that 

 have appeared from time to time in the ' Zoologist ' and l Intelligencer,' 

 but its principal locality I believe is Dover, where our late member, 

 Mr. Harding, took a specimen in 1860. This species is considered by 

 most of our first entomologists to have good claims to be British, from 

 one or two specimens occurring nearly every year, but whether the 

 insect is, or ever was, a resident in this country is doubted by many, of 

 whom I am one. Some of the members may ask, How is it possible 

 they could be caught were they not to breed here ? This question 

 can be answered in more ways than one. The coast of France, where 

 this insect may be taken very commonly, being such a short distance 



* Read at a meeting of the Haggerstone Entomological Society, April 9, 1863. 

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